Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The logic of this implies that microglia are a third brain. The authors say in the abstract that “the brain is a composite organ…” and in the discussion they say “Analogously, the heart derives from 2 parallel progenitors… which converge to form a single organ.” But people will remember 2 organs… 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Going to be fun at Thanksgiving this year “No, grandma, sorry, but the brain is a single organ and we do use more than 10% of it.” 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But the press release quotes the investigators leaning into the two brain interpretation too… The paper itself is much more careful: it calls the brain a composite organ, singular. Two developmental lineages ≠ two organs. 100
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026med.stanford.edu/news/all-new... Is it possible that the scientist was like “My research shows that the brain has two origins” which is defensible here, and the media team was like “Got it. The Brain Is Two Separate Organs.” …this is a wild claim essentially challenging the definition of an organ.med.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 130
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Imagine publishing a cool and important paper in Nature Neurosci that could have important implications for treating CNS diseases, and then being like “Nope, not good enough for me. My research shows that the brain is two separate organs.” 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Feeling very lucky that he’ll be doing independent research in my lab this semester at Emory! It is an excellent review! 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 21/11/2025This is such a dumb reality we live in now. Absolutely moronic. 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Dear god, if you can’t buy a single treat PER WEEK then what is the point of living? 060
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I have no clue what this is about but I love it. 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Death and brain worms - but only for the worms when they don’t have enough to eat 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Yeah, fuck this guy. I would love to be able to walk through Atlanta without this crazy “JD” person yelling stuff in my city. Or any city. And they really aren’t our streets. The homeless live there. So it’s more theirs. Let’s solve homelessness instead of blaming people who can’t buy a meal. 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 20/06/2025“Molecular characteristics, projection characteristics” lmao I wish people received a training course on how to review manuscripts. Review the science, don’t design new studies (albeit mentioning missing controls). And then turn in your review a couple of weeks late, like me. I reject this review 021
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Stephen Miller is a stranger to himself and the rest of humanity. We would be better off if we could say the same. Also fuck dook 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Pretty sure it’s been extended at least a day for like the last 15 years. It’s going to be hilarious the first year they don’t extend it because some people pencil in the day after the deadline now 110
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Maybe the ones making the most money aren’t the best and brightest? 181
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This is so fucked up. It will probably take generations to reverse the institutional damage being done by this this administration. 0110
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Agreed! Also really impressive work on your poster! 110
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 20/04/2025So stupid. Maybe throw your magazine in the trash and give up. 030
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I will be there. Would love to hear what you’ve been working on in your postdoc with #CNAP 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 15/04/2025There is a special place in hell for this woman. 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Yes, I have always dreamed of paying even more for everything and for it to be lower quality so billionaires get even richer. Really fucking brilliant journalism here. 1713
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2025These are the people fucking shit up for the actual adults trying to make the world a better place. I can’t stop laughing at the idea that this guy decides the fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in biomedical research that he has no clue about. 050
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 14/03/2025You need to retire. The American people are sick of your shit. 000
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The corresponding author on this is one of my mentors at Emory. If you have not met Shawn yet I should introduce you. Great guy and doing excellent work on SCI 110
Reposted by Daniel HarperJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n 18218109
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes it will be made available in the near future as I understand it 010
Reposted by Daniel HarperJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Following a question from @dabiophysicist.bsky.social , I want to share some analyses and thoughts about indirect cost rates. This follows on from a #datahound post about indirect costs some years ago. datahound.scientopia.org/2014/05/10/i... Here goes, starting with some background... 1/ndatahound.scientopia.org 13018
Reposted by Daniel HarperTayler Sheahan @taylersheahan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I've joined the 🦋 migration! Here's a pain and somatosensory researchers starter pack. Comment or message me to be added #neuroscience #neuroskyence #pain 🧠 🔬 go.bsky.app/N3EmVKA 363613
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hi please add me and thanks for putting this together 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Thanks for reminding me why I unfollowed you on Twitter. Good luck. 100
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Congrats on your new postdoc position! You are working with a great group there! 110
Reposted by Daniel HarperRochelle Ackerley @rochelleackerley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Really happy to have contributed, with other great researchers, to this news feature by Fred Schwaller in Nature! The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thingThrough brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs. 033
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024How can pain be an experience if not through perception? 010
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I actually think we agree on a lot about some of the problems and logical fallacies that are prevalent in pain research/treatment today. But me asking a question seems to immediately send you to a place where you want to argue. 100
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I didn’t mention you by name. I posted the same thing on Twitter. You are welcome to comment there as well. Not sure if you are aware of this, but your comments on Twitter are often perceived by others as very condescending. And imo at times unprofessional. 200
Daniel Harper @harperofscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I hope we can have a solid pain science group here! I am going to miss the community on Twitter. 110